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Saturday 25 October 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Colombian Police Blame
FARC For Committing
Explosions In Bogota
BOGOTA - Colombian
police accused on Friday
the rebel Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) of committing a
series of recent
explosions in Bogota, in
which 16 people were
injured.
Director of Metropolitan
Police Rodolfo Palomino
said that the first
investigations of the
explosions in different
zones of Bogota on
Thursday showed that the
rebels had planned the
attacks with
similarities.
"The analysis of the way
of execution, the
identical pattern of
each explosion, and the
intelligence information
we have received all
undoubtedly lead us to
conclude that those acts
were done by nobody but
the FARC guerillas,"
Palomino said.
The authorities
dismissed that the
attacks had relation to
the national workers
strike on demand for
salary increases and
other social grievances
to the government.
Bogota's Mayor Samuel
Moreno offered 25,000
U.S. dollars for a
reward to the people who
give information to help
the capture of those who
had put the explosives
inside the basket bins
in six residential
sectors of the city.
Moreno have refrained
from accusing the
guerillas so far, but
prefers to let the
investigation continue.
The explosions occurred
on Thursday in Bogota at
middle and high class
districts, and one of
them occurred in the
north of the city near
the building of the
Peruvian and German
embassies in Colombia.
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